using-ai-to-mitigate-the-growing-environmental-threat-of-data-centers

The global building boom of power-hungry data centers is straining electrical grids, causing greater reliance on energy from polluting fossil fuels. Christina Delimitrou, a newly tenured associate professor at MIT, is fighting this environmental threat by rethinking how the computer servers and networking equipment inside those data centers operate.  SheContinue Reading

mit-researchers-tackle-the-economic-realities-of-fusion-power

In the last decade, scientists have shown that fusion energy can work, as a physical process. Next question: Can it work economically?  A study co-authored by MIT professors Dennis Whyte and Andrew W. Lo proposes a framework for understanding what’s needed to make fusion energy commercially viable in the marketplace.Continue Reading